My latest book was published just a few weeks ago and has already been reprinted twice with several foreign language rights already sold. This has been a lot of fun to write. Read FREE SAMPLE of the book. Packed into it are insights from every keynote, workshop, seminar and strategy session I have done in every industry, in every nation, over the last five years. After months of preparation and research, the writing process itself was the fastest I have ever done (for a book of this length, around 110,000 words), compared to the other 15 over the years.

"Absolutely brilliant. I love this man's exhilarating thinking and writing. Here are far-sighted insights into the tangible and intangible horizons of future change, underpinned by wisdom abut its ultimate driving force - human nature." Nigel Nicholson, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School

“A brilliant guide to our future, which should be read by every decision-maker, packed with deep insights on a huge number of trends. Patrick Dixon has a great track record over many years in forecasting opportunities, risks and challenges that will affect us all.” Sir Brian Souter - Chairman, Stagecoach Group Plc

Leaders of G20 Nations have declared that Brexit would be a shock to the global economy: hype or fiction? Whatever the result of the British EU referendum on 23rd June 2016, the UK vote will be fiercely contested, and will have a profound impact on the future direction of the EU. Just the fact that such a Brexit vote is taking place is already triggering events elsewhere. For example, on 26th February, an opinion poll in Denmark showed that most Danes now want to have a vote of their own. The truth is that a lot of nonsense is being paraded as fact in the heated Brexit referendum campaign. Here is a guide to your Brexit-related future by Brexit Keynote Speaker Patrick Dixon

Interview with Patrick Dixon, author of The Future of Almost Everything - at Origin Round Table discussion on Home of the Future - see Origin Homes of the Future Report, widely reported in the media.

What will homes of the future be like? How will buyers of property change what they are looking for? Impact on architecture, building design and property markets. Future of real estate and home building in the UK and Europe. Future design of homes. How and why old homes are being reshaped - creating open space living areas with many private spaces for bedrooms, home office etc. Old model of living room, front parlour, dining room etc - radically different today, what about the future?

My new global trends book is out now: The Future of Almost Everything. But it takes at least 20 years to evaluate how good a trends analyst was / is – so what about forecasts made by me in previous books, about what to expect over the following decade or two or three? How did those forecasts measure up? I had to answer that question for myself by re-reading what I wrote in the past about the future, before writing my latest book. Read FREE SAMPLE of The Truth about Almost Everything.

So you can judge for yourself, here are loads of predictions I made in the past - and the book in which they were made plus date. Every one of these is already a reality or looks like it soon could be, as of August 2015....And yes I got some things wrong - not many fortunately.

Here is a 5 second guide to the 5 minute guide. 1) Bring in outsiders to challenge your world view. 2) Listen to your customers - but don't believe them. 3) Read widely and be curious about all you meet. 4) Review your strategies each year. 5) Agile leadership teams.

Video of Futurist keynote for 1000 VIP Samsung clients on future of retail including the use of Big Data. For full article and the slides, press Read More link below. Online
sales will exceed $1.5 trillion in 2014, of which $100bn will be in
Latin America, $6.2bn in Mexico (up 40% in a year). Most of Latin
America’s online sales are on websites owned by traditional retailers. And
sales per online user each year are also growing fast – averaging $578
across Latin America: $854 in Mexico, $717 in Brazil and $380 in
Argentina. Notes on Futurist keynote lecture for Samsung client event in Mexico –
audience of IT / computers, mobile phones and electrical appliance
retailers from Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuala,
Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Honduras,
Salvador, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Panama. Need a world-class retail industry keynote speaker for your event? Phone or e-mail Patrick Dixon now.

Notes on pharma trends keynote. In the past, the major challenge for a pharma company was to develop a new therapy, prove impact in clinical trials, show safety, and get licience approval to enable the product to be sold commercially. Typically the process could take up to 15 years, and cost up to $1.2 billion, which all had to be recouped in 10 years of sales before the patent ran out. But today there is a massive additional hurdle which is persuading cash-strapped governments and insurers to fund a new therapy for patients. It is no longer enough to prove the therapy works, saves lives, has less side effects and so on. The pharma company has to make the case that the therapy offers good value for money compared to other treatments for the same condition. Need a world-class pharma keynote speaker for your event? Phone or e-mail Patrick Dixon now.

What did you learn as an inventor/innovator making a ground-breaking medical device in the early 1980s?It was an amazing time – as the world’s first desktop computers hit the markets in 1978. I started a company called Medicom Ltd, which developed a suite of programmes to interview patients, help make a diagnosis, record health statistics, do accounts for General Practice doctors, connect to hospital lab equipment and so on. I learned that the most important thing about all medtech is to keep things simple and reliable: doctors, nurses and other health care workers are busy and need devices that work....